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-ta'tented Nov,23, 1915.

Application filed February 25, 1915. Serial No. 10,578.

STEPHEN KovAori, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and .useful Improvements in- Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for preventing the refilling of bottles, jars or the like and has for its object to provide a simple and positively-operating device which will not only close the bottle when the same is in an upright position, but

will also act to close said bottle when-the same is inclined or in a horizontal posit on... The invention consists in the combination section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the sectional ring. Fig. 5 is a detail view of one of the sections of said ring. Fig. 61s a detail plan view of the valve.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of thedrawings;

tubular member which, in the present case, is preferably the neck of the bottle 6 and 8 is the mouth portion of said bottle, the same of said member. An opening 10 is provided at the center of said partition 9 through which all the liquor must pass during the filling or emptying of said bottle. A valve 11 is arranged to seat against the upper edge 12 of the partition 9 surrounding the opening 10, said edge being ground to conform to a correspondingly groundunder face 13 of the valve 11.

'The valve 11 is provided with a fluted or ribbed stem 14:,the'ribs of which are arranged to fit and slide within the opening 10 ofsaid partition, thus when said valve is movedaway from its seat on said partition-passages will be provided for conveying orconducting the liquors to and from the interior of the bottle 6.

Placed above the valve 11 and movable longitudinally of thetubular member 7 is a weight 15, preferably in the form of an in- "verted cone, constructedof any suitable material such as porcelain. Interposed between the weight 15 and the valve 11 are a plurality; of segmental shaped members 16,

preferably 6' in number, and forming as it were asectional ring which surroundsthe cone shaped weight 15. The upper faces 17 of the members 16 are adapted to conform with and engage the conicalsurface 18 of said weight. g The members 16 are provided attheir lower inner portions with bearing surfaces 19-which areadapted to engage a corresponding surface 20 upon the upper side of the valve I l/The weight 15 is provided with a-plurality of ribs 21 which extend substantially from the apex of the base of said member and respectively engage said segmental shaped members within grooves 22, 22, each of, said members having one groove adjacent the central portion thereof. In the drawings, 6 is a bottle and 7a The upper face 23 01-1 base of the cone is provided, with a plurality of radiating grooves 24, 2% all of which are united at the genter and extend to the upper edge ofsaid ase. A second partition or baffle 25 is arranged transversely of the tubular member above the weight 15, said partition being constructed of suitable material such as glass or porcelain, preferably the latter. This partition is preferably secured at a predetermined distance above the partition 9 by molding the sameinto the material forming said tubular member 7, thus preventing any movement thereof.

A series of openings 26, 26 are provided in the partition 25, preferably aroundthe edge thereof. An annular rim 27 is ar- I ranged within the tubular member 7 between .the partition 25 and the weight and at a distance above said welght sufficient to permit thenecessary movements of said weight' during the opening and closing of the bottle. The rim 27 may be constructed of glass, porcelain or other suitable material and is preferably secured to the member 7 before the partition is permanently fixed in its position. The upper face of the rim 27 is concaved as at 28. 7

During the assembling of the several parts constituting the closure of the bottle, a fine, flexible cord or Wire 29 is inserted through a hole 30 in the upper face of the valve 11.

Opposite ends of said wire are then thread-, ed through a passage 31 extending from the thus leaving the opening through the partition ,9 wide open. The ends of said wire 29 are then secured to the nose of said bottle I inany suitable manner,such as by winding a wire about the exterior of said nose, thus holding said valve in its open position,

- The bottle may thenbe filled without difliculty and after being filled the wire is withdrawn from the valve 10 by pulling from one end only and said valve is permitted to be closed by the combined weights of the member 15 and the members 16. A slight space 32 is always maintained between the members 16 and these spaces are always maintained in alinement with the grooves 24 by. the cooperation of the ribs 21 and grooves 22. r p

In the normalposition of the device, that is upright as shown in Fig. 1, the weight 15 Cooperating with the weights 16 maintains the valve closed. To remove the contents of the bottle, said bottle must be inverted until the weights 15 and 16 move away from the partition 9 and against the rim 27, thus the valve 11 will be permitted to open. Should said bottle be tipped to a horizontal position the valve 11 will be maintained closed and in fact said valve will be maintained closed until said bottle has been turned toa point in which the median axial line thereof is inclined at an angle to a horizontal plane, equalto the angle of the side of said cone shaped weight. at this time above the horizontal plane. In other words, assuming that the angle of one side of said cone is at 45 to its axis, said bottle may be tipped 135 from the vertical or upright position'before said valve will ;begin to open, or within 45 of its absolutely inverted position. The cause of this is due The base of said bottle is to the fact that the segmental sections 16 are constructed in the form of wedges and as said bottle is turned in the direction of the arrow at Fig. 1. The weight of the uppermost one of said sections 16 will cause said member to drop and owing to the inclination of the face 17, which cooperates with the inclination of the cone shaped member 15, said member will be forced against the valve 1.1. The members 16 on the lower half of the sectional ring will be moved against said valve by the weight of the sections above together with the weight of the member 15, which during the inverting of the bottle will be moved against the rim 27.

It must therefore be necessary in order to overcome the tendency to close said valve to move the bottle to a position where the effect of the inclined surfaces 17 and the conical surface 18 will be neutralized. By providing the rim 27 directly beneath the openings 26 and by forming in the upper face of said rim the concavity 28, it will be impossible for a wire to be passed through said openings 26 downwardly around the outer edge of the member 15 and between the adjacent members 16 to the seat of the valve and thus prevent said valve from entirely closing the opening. Furthermore by the use of the weights 16 cooperating with the cone shaped member 15 it will be impossible to turn the bottle upon its side and refill the same, as the valve at this time is maintained absolutely closed.

Having thus described our invention what we claim and desire by Letters Patent to secure is:

1. A nonrefillable bottle having, in combination, a tubular member, a partition extending transversely of said tubular member and provided with an opening, a valve arranged to close said opening, a movable member arranged above said valve, and a series of segmental shaped weights sur rounding said movable member and adapted to cooperate with said movable member to close said valve.

2. A nonrefillable bottle having, in combination, a tubular member, a partition extending transversely of said tubular member and provided with an opening, a valve arranged to close said opening, a movable member arranged above said valve, and a series of segmental shaped weights surrounding and interlocking with said movable member and adapted to cooperate with said movable member to close said valve.

3. A nonrefillable bottle having, incombi' nation, a tubular member, a pair of partitions disposed transversely of and within said tubular member and at a substantial distance apart, each of said partitions being provided with an opening, a valve adapted to close the opening of one of said partiabout and in contact with said cone shaped member and adapted to 006perate,.,therew1th to maintain said valve closed.

4:. A nonrefillable: bottle'hav-ing, in com- 1 bination, a tubular member, a partition extending transversely of said =tubular mem ber and provided with an opening, a valvewi arranged to close said opening, a movable member arranged above said valve, means for limiting the movements of said movable member away from said partition, and a series of segmental shaped members arranged about and in contact with said movable member, said segmental shaped members being constructed and arranged to cooperate with said movable member to maintain said valve closed.

5 A nonre-fillable bottle having, in com bination, a tubular member, a partition arranged within and transversely of said tubular member, said partition being provided with an opening, a valve adapted to close said opening, an inverted cone shaped member arranged in said tubular member above said valve, a series of ribs extending substantially from the apex to the base of said cone shaped member, and a series of segmental shaped members arranged about said cone shaped members, each of said segmental shaped members having a groove adapted to receive one of said ribs, said cone shaped member and said series of segmental shaped members being constructed and arranged to maintain said valve closed.

6. A nonrefillable bottle having, in combination, a tubular member, a partition arranged within and transversely of said tubular member, said partition being provided with an opening, a valve adapted to close said opening, a weight arranged above said valve to move longitudinally of said tubular member, means to limit the movements of said weight away from said valve, and a series of segmental shaped Wedges arranged above said weight adapted to cooperate therewith to maintain said valve closed.

7. A nonrefillable bottle having, in combination, a tubular neck portion, a partition arranged within and transversely of said neck, said partition having a central open ing, a valve constructed and arranged to seat on said partition and to close said opening, an inverted cone shaped member arranged above said valve and movable longitudinally of said neck, means for limiting the movements of said cone shaped member away from said valve, a series of segmental shaped wedges surrounding said cone shaped member and engaging said valve, said wedges being separated from each other by spaces, said cone shaped member having a plurality of radiating Q grooves alining.- with said spaces, and means to retain said spacesand said grooves in said alincment.

S, A nonrefillable bottle having, in combi- ,nation,a itubularneck portion, a mouth portion substantially smaller in diameter than saidvneck, a partition arranged within and transversely of said neck, said partition having acentral opening, a valvelconstnucted and arranged to seat on said partition and to close said opening, an inverted cone shaped member arranged above said valve and movable longitudinally of said neck, means for limiting the movements of said cone shaped member away from said valve, a series of segmental shaped wedges surrounding said cone shaped member and engaging said valve, said wedges being separated lrom each other by spaces, said cone shaped member having a plurality of radiating grooves alining with'said spaces, and means to retain said spaces and said grooves in such alinement.

9. A nonrefillable bottle having, in combination, a tubular member, a pair of partitions disposed transversely of and within said tubular member and at a substantial distance apart, each of said partitions being provided with an opening, a valve adapted to close the opening of one of said partitions, an inverted cone shaped member arranged intermediate of said partitions, a series of segmental shaped weights arranged about and in contact with said cone shaped member and adapted to cooperate therewith to maintain said valve closed said cone shaped member having a hole extending from the center of the base to the apex thereof, said valve having a transverse hole adjacent to the top thereof, and a flexible member adapted to be passed through the holes in said partitions, said cone shaped weight and said valve, adapted to elevate and hold said valve away from said partition whereby said bottle may be filled.

10. A nonrefillable bottle having, in combination, a tubular member, a partition eX- tending transversely of said tubular member and provided with an opening, a valve arranged to seat against said partition and close said opening, a stem for said valve having slidable engagement with said partition within said opening and adapted to guide said valve, said stem having a plurality of grooves extending longitudinally thereof, and a plurality of segmental shaped weights arranged in a continuous series around and above said valve and adapted to cooperate during the inclination of said botle to maintain said valve in contact with its seat.

11. A nonrefillable bottle having, in combination, a tubular member, a partition eX- tending transversely of said tubular member and provided with an opening, a valve arranged to close said opening, a movable member arranged above said valve, and a set our hands in presence of two subscribing continuous series of segmental shaped Witnesses.

Weights surrounding said valve, intermedi- GERGELY SZUCS. ate of said valve and saidmovable member STEPHEN KOVACH. and adapted to cooperate with said 111OV- Witnesses: able member-t0 close said valve. SYDNEY E. TAFT,

In testimony whereof We have hereunto MARGARET E. HORN.

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